when push is not a notification

I like push notifications on my phone. I use this web app for mastodon which sends cute little notices. Elk is really a nice app. I like a few of the android apps just not enough to use them regularly. Instead I just allow notifications from elk on the browser and then install the app on the phone home screen. It just seems so simple to get things. Like a few minimal steps. I don’t need some app installed. Just the push please.

In life though sometimes I would rather not have notifications. I admit to muting people in my life I would rather care not to get words from. With people there are no settings. Like,

• mute all. With this I could silence people all the time. Send them to some background where they queue up and I ignore
• mute between hours. This would be good with some neighbors with Bluetooth speakers. These people earnestly believe their music is fit to be shared. No. Mute from 5am on. Thanks
• mute some. This would give me fine-grained ability to mute some. Like each person I could look at and decide. Perhaps they graduate to mute all. Or between hours.

There is always a person somewhere I would like a selective mute button on. I could press the button and find relief. Since I am not a good talker or listener someone exceeds the zone quickly. Often I must admit someone too happy or too sad. Someone that insists I should be included in a discussion I don’t give a F about.

Honestly most of the discussions I don’t care about. Especially with barang people. I find myself shying away from them. Wanting the mute button. I feel like respectfully saying,

Stfu

Respectfully.

then I go look

At pictures of some beach on some day when no one needed to be muted.

beach

Yeah. No muting that day along otres beach way back before roads and changes to the wonderful little community that always seemed on pause. Sadly not so.

There is no muting change.